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The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border : Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas - 2015

Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …

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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers : Evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas - 2018

effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment …

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Competition, Harmonization and Redistribution : Corporate Taxes in Switzerland

Brülhart, Marius; Köthenbürger, Marko; Krapf, Matthias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Switzerland could be considered as a test case for international corporate-tax policy coordination. It is a federation …. We document and discuss corporate taxation in Switzerland, with a focus on three aspects: (a) the evolving within …

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Central Bank Behavior and the Strategy of Monetary Policy : Observations From Six Industrialized Countries

Bernanke, Ben - 1992

Using a simple case study approach. this paper compares the conduct and performance of monetary policy in six Industrialized countries since the breakup of the Bretton Woods system. Our purpose is to develop fruitful hypotheses that might usefully be explored in subsequent, more formal research....

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A Multi-Country Comparison of Term Structure Forecasts at Long Horizons

Jorion, Philippe - 1991

Switzerland. Even with wide differences in inflation processes across these countries, there is we find strong evidence that the …

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The Impact of Social Security on Pension Claiming and Retirement : Active vs. Passive Decisions

Lalive, Rafael - 2020

We exploit a unique Swiss reform to identify the importance of passivity, claiming social security benefits at the Full Retirement Age (FRA). Sharp discontinuities generated by the reform reveal that raising the FRA while imposing small early claiming penalties significantly delays pension...

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Taxing Our Wealth

Scheuer, Florian - 2020

past, now only three retain them, with only Switzerland raising a comparable fraction of revenue as recent proposals for a …

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Exchange Rates and Prices : Evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc Appreciation

Auer, Raphael A.; Burstein, Ariel T.; Lein-Rupprecht, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We dissect the impact of a large and sudden exchange rate appreciation on Swiss border import prices, retail prices, and consumer expenditures on domestic and imported non-durable goods, following the removal of the EUR/CHF floor in January 2015. Cross-sectional variation in border price changes...

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Intertemporal Labor Supply Substitution? Evidence from the Swiss Income Tax Holidays

Martinez, Isabel Z. - 2018

policy change in Switzerland. In the late 1990s, Switzerland switched from an income tax system where current taxes were …

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Central Banks : Evolution and Innovation in Historical Perspective

Bordo, Michael D. - 2017

Central banks have evolved for close to four centuries. This paper argues that for two centuries central banks caught up to the strategies followed by the leading central banks of the era; the Bank of England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and the Federal Reserve in the twentieth...

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